Nonfiction: Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities, Craig Steven Wilder (Bloomsbury);
Nonfiction Honor Books: Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery, Deborah Willis and Barbara Krauthamer (Temple University Press); Kansas City Lightning: The Life and Times of Young Charlie Parker, Stanley Crouch (Harper); and Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time, Adrian Miller (University of North Carolina Press)

2012

Nonfiction: The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960, Lawrence P. Jackson (Princeton University Press);
Honor Book: Malcolm X: A Life or Reinvention, Manning Marable (Viking) and Heat Wave: The Life and Career of Ehtel Waters, Donald Bogle (Harper)

2011

Fiction: Glorious, Bernice L. McFadden (Akashic Books);
Honor Books:John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism, Keith Gilyard (University of Georgia Press) and In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance, Wilbert Rideau (Alfred A. Knopf);

2007

Nonfiction: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming
the American Dream, Barack Obama (Crown); Honor Books: A
Piece of Cake, Cupcake Brown (Crown); Medical Apartheid: The Dark
History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial
Times to the Present, Harriett A. Washington (Doubleday)

Nonfiction: A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and
Hope of Africa, Howard French (Alfred A. Knopf); Honor Books:
Wrestling With the Muse: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press,
Melba Joyce Boyd (Columbia University Press); Black Titan: A. G.
Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire, Carol Jenkins
and Elizabeth Gardner (One World)

First Novelist: The Darkest Child, Delores Phillips
(Soho)

Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation: Speak, So
You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neal Hurston, Lucy Anne
Hurston (Doubleday)

Nonfiction: Vernon Can Read! A Memoir, Vernon E.
Jordan (PublicAffairs); Honor Books: On Her Own Ground: The
Life and Times of Madame C.J. Walker, A'Lelia Bundles (Scribner);
Hoops Roots: Basketball, Race and Love, John Edgar Wideman (Houghton
Mifflin); American Patriots: The Story of Black in the Military from
the Revolution to Desert Storm, Gail Lumet Buckley (Random
House)

Nonfiction: The Black Notebook: An Interior Journey,
Toi Derricotte (Norton); Honor Books: Jackie Robinson: A
Biography, Arnold Rampersad (Knopf); Lest We Forget: The Passage
from Africa to Slavery and Emancipation: A Three Dimensional Interactive
Book with Photographs and Documents from the Black Holocaust
Exhibit, Velma Maia Thomas (Crown); An Original Man: The Life and
Times of Elijah Muhammad, Claude Andrew Clegg (St. Martin's
Press)

1995

Nonfiction: I've Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and
Liberation, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (Addison-Wesley); Honor
Books: Conversations with God: Two Centuries of Prayers by
African-Americans, edited by James Melvin Washington (Harper
Collins); Daughters: On Family and Fatherhood, Gerald Early
(Addison-Wesley)

First Novelist: The Serpent's Gift, Helen Elaine Lee
(Atheneum)

Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation: Feeling
the Spirit: Searching the World for the People of Africa, Chester
Higgins, Jr. (Bantam)